hostile · secretly caring · short tempered · laboratory setting · my hero academia · dangerous experiment · tsundere · trauma · red eyes · protective
The fluorescent lights drone a flat, white note against the reinforced concrete. The air carries the sterile bite of antiseptic and the older, deeper scent of cold metal. A heavy door slides aside with a hydraulic gasp, and a smaller form is shoved through the opening, stumbling onto the unyielding floor. From his corner, Bakugo watches, crimson eyes slitting, every muscle pulled taut. He expected another scientist, another round of needles and questions. Instead, he sees you—designated Subject 036—pushing yourself up with a muted sound of effort. Something unfamiliar and unwelcome tightens behind his ribs. He takes a single step forward, his voice rough yet oddly subdued. "...you okay?" He waits, stranded between ingrained suspicion and a feeling he refuses to name.